Artist: Lil Silva

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Loose Joints is new podcast hosted by Nialler9 and Sally Cinnamon talking to people about the music they love: old and new.

For number three we are joined by Emmet Kirwan, actor and writer. You might know him from his brilliant stage show Dublin Old School, Just Saying or most recently Thisispopbaby’s RIOT show at the Fringe.

The Nialler9 radio show airs live every Thursday night from 10pm to Midnight on 105.2FM TXFM. TXFM will close some time this year but the show continues until further notice. Like this website, it’s a new music show featuring myself presenting my favourite tunes.

Having been known for a harder-edged form of dance music, Lil Silva’s new EP, Mabel, will be a surprise to many as it eschews the sound he deployed on records for Night Slugs in favour of a gentle sonic space that is somewhere between R&B, pop and the xx-style indie dynamics.

24-year-old TJ Carter’s 2013 EP, Distance, also removed himself for the club with more chilled passages featuring Sampha and Rosie Lowe but the Mabel EP is almost completely devoid of regular club sounds (instrumental opener ‘First Mark’ has a grimey melody line), preferring a vocal and synth-lead action that’s closer to his previous collaborator Sampha. The sweet title track is about his grandmother.

A new voices appears twice, one of Lil Silva’s most prominent muse, Banks. Their partnerships started with the EP track ‘Work’ and has continued Banks’ debut album where Lil Silva provided the shuddering backdrop for the title track and is the album’s main producer.

On the EP, ‘Right For You’ sticks closer to the early Banks template with the pair duetting, while ‘Don’t You Love’, a sweet melodic hypnotic turn with jagged edges sounding the most well-rounded and complete vision of the pair working together on Silva’s terms.

London girl trio Juce! are clearly all about the funky summer jams. On their recent tracks ‘Call You Out’ and ‘(H)ours’ they’ve proved that and their new track ‘Burning Up’ tightens up tighter to the synth-funk pop beat.

4. Royal Blood – ‘Figure It Out’

Thrilling rock track from the Brighton duo’s forthcoming self-titled debut album out in August 23rd. Supporting Arctic Monkeys in Marlay Park. Great new video for the song too:

Mike Smalle of Cane141 and B-Movie Lightning is back with a new collaborative project with Italian producer and musician Matteo Grassi.This is the title track from the new EP, inspired by “electronic music, film soundtracks and ambient soundscapes”.

TDublin-based Cork producer REID is back with a new EP and the release is being trailed by ‘Fractures’, a track with a head-spinning night-time European electronic feel with nods to Gold Panda and vocals by Slow Skies aka Karen Sheridan.

Having made his name with some brisk and sample-formed bedroom electronica, Ryan DeRobertis aka Long Island’s Saint Pepsi has turned his established sound into something that more closely resembles Toro Y Moi making bright funky pop music.

The Nialler9 TXFM show airs every Thursday night at 10pm for two hours. You can listen on 105.2FM, online, the TXFM app or if you missed it, on the listen back function on the site. Here’s last night’s show…

As the buzz from SXSW subsides, Banks has lined up a U.S. tour for May before hitting Europe for much of the summer. Her debut album Goddess is due after all that and today Banks has posted the title track from the album due in September on Good Years / Harvest Records (US).

The album promises nine new tracks as well as her glut of great tunes we already know ‘This Is What It Feels Like’, ‘Waiting Game’, ”Brain’, ‘Change’ and ‘Warm Water’.

Goddess Track List:

1. Alibi 2. Goddess 3. Waiting Game 4. Brain 5. This Is What It Feels Like 6. You Should Know Where I’m Coming From 7. Stick 8. Fuck Em Only We Know 9. Drowning 10. Beggin For Thread 11. Change 12. Someone New 13. Warm Water 14. Under The Table

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Ticket freebies this week:

How to enter – Email [email protected] with the gig above in the Subject line you’re entering for along with your full name and phone number in the body of the message. Full info on each show below. Draw closes at 6pm the day before the gig.